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0:00 Well, this morning, I've got, I want to share with you a reminder. And I know we're gonna break bread a little later on, so I will cut it short. I won't,0:11 expound too much. But I I want to give you a reminder this morning. How many of you know that we need reminders? Especially when you get to my age. My wife has to remind me about0:23 100 things every single day. Amen? But so it is in the kingdom of God. You know, Jesus spoke to the disciples about the end times and I know0:35 we're living in a wonderful time and also we're living in a terrible time. Jesus spoke to the disciples and they asked him, what will be the sign of your return? And Jesus0:47 mentioned several things to the disciples. He tells them that there's going to be many false prophets and false teachers, and there are going to be earthquakes and all these kind of things are going to0:59 take place. So Jesus forewarns the disciples of the things that are yet to come. We as God's people today, we love the word of God. We love preaching that always1:11 blesses us, but we also need to hear a strong word from the Lord every now and again to help us, to strengthen us, and to keep us on the path.1:23 And so I want to mention a few things prophetically that I have noticed been happening the last number of years. Of course, there's been a lot of change in the world. We see tremendous change1:34 and things happening, but I'm not so much concerned about that because there are people today who who follow Jesus Christ, but they are so wrapped up and caught up with what's happening in the1:46 world that they neglect so great a salvation. I'm a kingdom person. I'm born again. I'm swept into God's kingdom. I've been received in the1:57 beloved. My sins have been forgiven. I'm a new creature. I'm a man of destiny. I know where I'm going. I'm heading for the city that has foundations and whose builder and maker is2:09 God. I know that he said, he's going to prepare a place for me, and then 1 day he will come back to receive me so that I can be where he is. So I know where I'm going. And so my2:21 concern is not so much what is happening in the world, but what's happening in the church. Amen? Amen. Now, there are several things that are sticking out and and and there are many things2:33 are happening actually, but I just want to mention 4 things very quickly to you. I believe it is a time of tremendous heresy. Now I've been in the ministry for over 40 years,2:45 and I've never seen so much heresy and nonsense that has been propagated in the name of Jesus in the church today. So I want to mention some of these things. What is2:57 heresy? Heresies is opinions that are in opposition or contrary to basic truth. Many people don't want to submit to God's word.3:08 Now, people don't want to say, let God be true and every man a liar. And so people have their own opinions about just about everything that is in scripture. And many of those opinions3:20 are voiced as doctrines and teachings from pulpits. And people take hold of that, and what they're really doing, they're building their lives on sand,3:33 because it's only God's word that is a solid foundation, not the opinions of man. The second thing, I believe it's a great time of apostasy.3:45 What is apostasy? Apostasy is moving away from the faith that is once and for all being delivered to the saints. Jude says, we must contend3:57 earnestly for that faith that is once and for all being delivered unto the saints. So there is a body of truth passed on from him who is the truth.4:09 Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes unto the father, but by me. So he chose a few men, he taught them the truth, and he told them to take that body of4:21 truth and to pass it on to other faithful men, so that they may continue to pass it on to other faithful men. So that is the faith that we must contend for, but4:33 there are many things creeping into the church today that have nothing to do with that truth that has been handed down from the Lord Jesus Christ. Men come with their own ideas, their4:45 own visions, their own dreams, their own visitations to heaven, and they start teaching all kinds of things, and they go into extremes. And when it goes into an extreme, it becomes4:56 apostasy. Amen. We must content earnestly for that faith once and for all delivered unto the saints. Secondly, the thirdly, there's a falling away.5:08 Even though we experience growth, nonetheless, there are many people that are falling away from the church, and they're falling away from number 1, the truth.5:20 They no longer want to embrace the truth. They no longer want to submit their lives to the truth, so they fall away. There are many people that are falling away from the church. If you just look back5:32 over a number of years, how many people you knew that were coming, that were faithful, and that were involved to the work of God. They no longer come and little reasons, foolish reasons5:44 have caused them to get bitter and to fall away. Folk, God is looking for men and women that are willing to stand through every storm that comes their way. God wants to strengthen us and make us men5:56 and women who are rooted and grounded and established in his word, so that when the storms of life come and experiences of life come our way, we don't fall, we don't crumble, we don't run away, but we6:08 stand because we are rooted in him, the Lord Jesus Christ. So many people fall away and they get bit about foolish things, things that are so unnecessary, and it is important6:19 that we understand that as the body of Christ, we must pray for 1 another. We must encourage 1 another. We must strengthen 1 another because there are weak people among us, and there are those that if they6:31 are not embraced and loved and shown the way and receive a strong word from the Lord, they will not be able to stand in the days that lie ahead. So Jesus warns us of false6:43 prophets, false teachers, and difficult times that will come the way of the people of God. The fourth thing that I've been noticing for some time now is that many people that are becoming6:55 part of the church are people who are religious. They have not been born again. They come to a church and they see wonderful things happening. They love the the programs. They love7:07 what's going on. They love the preacher. They love the singing and that, and then they just join that church and become part of that church, but there's not a day that they can point to where they were born again7:19 of the spirit of God. And so there are many religious people, and we've got to understand this morning no matter how religious you are, you will not enter the kingdom of God. You can go to church 37:30 times a day for year in and year out, but it will not take you to heaven. Jesus said to a very religious man, a a Pharisee, a man that was educated in the scriptures, a man was a good man.7:42 He said, Nicodemus, except the man be born again, he cannot even see the kingdom of God. And then again he said, Nicodemus, except the man be born again, he cannot enter7:54 in to the kingdom of God. And so I believe there are many religious people. Thank God they are here. Thank God they're among us, but we must pray that there's an outpouring of God's spirit because we8:06 need fresh conviction. We need a fresh sense of God's love and fresh sense of the things that he has done for us on the cross of Calvary. There are many many people today. They will stand8:18 before the Lord 1 day and they say, Lord, Lord, Lord, we have cast out demons. We've healed the sick. We've been so active in our church. We function. We were part of just about everything that was taking8:30 place. We were in the worship team. We were in the ushers. We were in a security, and the Lord is going to say to them, depart from me you workers of iniquity. I never knew you. Why did8:42 he not know them? It's because they were religious. They were not born again. And there are so many people today that think if you're religious, that that that that is the thing that you ought to be big.8:53 Religion is listening to certain rules and regulations and there is tremendous amount of hypocrisy in religion. God is looking for men and women that will be filled with his spirit, that are born9:05 again of his spirit, that were old creatures, but now they have been changed because of the power of God. So these things I believe are taking place, in our world today. And so there's9:17 a verse of scripture that I just want to mention to you this morning, and that is in Matthew 26 41. He says, watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The9:29 spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. And I wanna use that 1 word in that verse, and that is watch. I know for many, many years as preacher that people have9:41 always said as the pastor, you are the watchman on the wall. And people have said to those that are involved in ministry that you are a watchman on the wall, but I believe all of us who are born9:52 again are watchmen on the wall. We need to be people who pray. We need to understand pray, the basic principles of prayer. But listen, we need to be watchmen. We need to know what's going10:04 on around us. We need to know what's taking place in the world. We need to know what wrong doctrine and wrong teaching is. We need to know those things that undermine the plan and the purposes of God, so that we can10:16 be bold in believing the truth because it is the truth that sets you free. Amen. And so he says, watch. The first thing I want to say to you this morning, you must watch your10:28 teaching. Where do you get your teaching? I know many come to Waters Church here this morning. You come here and you receive your teaching from your pastor and people, but you also get teaching from all over10:40 the place. I know in our church people, do they tell me about this book and that book, and they listen to this preacher and that preacher. I'm not saying that you must listen to others, but I must say you must be careful10:51 to what you're listening. Because what Paul Paul Paul said to Timothy, in the last days, they will heap to themselves teachers having itching ears. And he says, there's11:03 coming a day that people will not endure or tolerate sound doctrine. We're living in a time of mysticism that has crept into the church. We see a11:14 foolishness like never before, and and and we need to understand. We need to know where we get our teaching from. There are many, many false teachings, and they are are are are11:26 growing and developing. I've just noticed last night, some preachers years ago who fleece people, who wipe people out, taking their money from them, and then got caught out in11:38 the whole ministry that they were running crumbled. And now years later, they back, and they're doing the same thing over again. The 1 person I saw last night, he was selling11:50 water in bottles. And if you pour pour that water onto you, great things are gonna happen to you. The religious world is full of this garbage, and we must rightly12:02 be able to discern the word of God. What are we listening to? What does he mean? Heeping teaches that that and they will not endure sound there with but the itching ears will do that. Why? I wanna12:14 hear a preacher that's going to satisfy the lust that I have. And you'll find a preacher like that no matter what your lust is, no matter what your desires are, no matter what your lifestyle is, you'll12:26 find a preacher that will feed that and will make you feel good in that situation. That's why people never left the prophets because the prophets spoke the word of God. The prophets challenge people. The prophets warned12:38 people of their behavior, warned people of their lifestyle. Today, anything goes. We justify anything. We say anything is okay, but there is something special about being a born again12:50 Christian. It is a change of a lifestyle. It is a new creature. Amen? And so you gotta be careful of your teaching. Who are you listening to? We see extremes today. That was what's13:01 heresy. What is heresy? People take a teaching, and then they add their opinion to it, and they take it to an extreme. There there there's there's13:13 there's teachings today that you have to be healed all the time. You should never get sick, God. And the people who are propagating are getting older. They're getting blinder than they're getting sick because it doesn't13:24 add up. We need a balance of God's word. Amen? And so it's important what I listen to. It's it's important because the truth will help me grow. The truth will develop13:36 me. The truth will make me strong, but when I start building on all the nonsense and the stuff that does not line up with God's word, I'm building a house that's going to fall apart. Are you with13:48 me? We need sound doctrine. Jesus warned about it. He said these teachers and these false prophets, they will come and they do not speak from me. I have not told them what to say. The the the13:59 weirdness that I've seen today is unbelievable. And I know it's going to spread like a wildfire because most people are latching onto these people who are kind of gurus. Amen. Very few people are really14:11 looking for something that is genuine and sincere and the truth. We need the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Amen. There's nothing that anyone can add to God's word. There's nothing that can14:23 anyone can take God's word and make it better. And there are people saying today, listen, we need more than what we have today. This is not enough. There's more for us, and we need to reach out for more. What they14:33 basically saying that God's word is not enough. God's word is not enough. That's why people are adding foolish things. We must be satisfied with the whole counsel of God.14:45 Amen. And so you have to watch. What's your doctrine? What's the Bibles that you're reading? What's the books that you're reading? Because they're in there. There's a lot of stuff that does not line up with God's14:57 word, and in the long run, it's going to harm you and damage you. Amen? Secondly, we need to watch our disciplines. Watch our disciplines. What is a disciple? He said, go and make15:08 disciples. He never said make church goers. He said, make disciples. Disciple is a follower of Christ, is a disciplined 1. And so when I come to Christ, I15:20 become a disciple. I'm born again. I'm a disciplined 1. And slowly but surely, the Holy Spirit, the word of God, and other believers help me so that I can live a disciplined life. But there are15:32 certain disciplines that we need to watch prayer. Prayer is a discipline. As a child of God, as a believer, as those that are in Christ, I got to discipline myself to pray. Now, you don't have to pray like other15:44 people tell you to pray. You you just take the simplicity of prayer, and you'll understand what I'm saying this morning. You can find 100000 books on prayer. You can hear about prayer walk, and you can hear about this15:56 about prayer. There's 100 and different things you can hear about. The prayer of Elijah, the bed of Jabez, and you can hear all those things, and there's a books written about that. And people catch up these16:07 things, and they read these things, and they get so confused with prayer. Listen to me this morning. The disciples came to Jesus and they said, Lord, can you teach us how to pray? And he taught them how to16:19 pray. He said that when you pray, he was giving them the model prayer, not only for them, but for the church. He said, when you pray, pray in this manner. Our father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, and he16:31 says that prayer. That is a model prayer. It's not a thing that you repeat over and over and over. You can repeat it. It's not a problem, but it's a model prayer. So we build our prayers on what Jesus said, not on what16:42 this person says or that person says so much confusion with prayer. People judge you because of of their confusion in prayer, the books they've read. We are not to judge people. You can walk and pray. You can16:54 sleep. You can lie on your bed and pray. You can drive a car and pray. You can be on a sports field and you what is prayer? Prayer is not auditory towards God. Prayer is not saying great words. Prayer is17:06 speaking to the living God who has redeemed you. And I can speak to Jesus anytime. I don't have to go through a pastor. I don't have to go through a church. I don't have to go through anyone because I have free access17:18 into his presence as a born child born again child of him. Amen. I'm speaking to her. That's what prayer is. And I'm I'm not saying those books are bad. You can read them, but people are complicating stuff and making17:30 it more difficult. And that's why many people are not disciplined in their prayer life. They judge themselves by what they hear, other people saying, how other people pray. I've heard people say that.17:42 I I can't pray like that person, that's why I can't pray out aloud. It's not about that person, it's about you and your relationship with the Lord. Amen. So that's our 1 discipline. The second17:53 discipline is we must train ourselves to be godly. To be godly. Not religious, but godly. What does a godly person do? A godly person is caught up with18:05 godly things. Listen, I I I I've you've got to work at it. If I sit among a bunch of people and they're sweating and cursing and telling dirty jokes, I don't sit there and tolerate it. I get18:17 up, and the godly thing is to walk away from it. And so there are many godly things we need to do because we are supposed to be godly people. We represent the god of heaven.18:29 Amen? And sometimes we get mixed up with people and we think, well, we're doing we we we're to win them and we stick to and and and all the nonsense that being propagated begins to latch onto us and18:41 it's not long we turn the same way. We gotta we gotta make we can make a stand today. People must know who you belong to. They must know what you stand for, and your people at your work and in your office18:53 and in your family must know you as a godly man and a godly woman, not as a religious hypocrite. Look, I make mistakes. I've been in the ministry for donkey's years, but I still make mistakes.19:04 I still have to come and I still have to repent. I will repent until the day I go to heaven because I mess up time and time. I've never ever said, listen, follow me. I'm a great person. I never make no.19:16 I'm I'm human. I'm battling with that old carnal flesh every single day. That old Tommy that is supposed to be dead and buried, he rises up every now and again, and then he wants to overpower the spiritual Tommy, and19:28 then the fruits of that Tommy is manifest. It's a battle, but we gotta fight this so that we can live godly lives. Amen? Amen. Hallelujah. Get into the word.19:40 Read the word. Don't let people come and tell you you gotta read a whole book or do this and that. They can encourage you in that way. But so long as you read the word. So that you know the word. We get filled with it.19:52 You know the word of God is so amazing. You can hear a preacher and you can leave and not remember hardly anything he said, but the word has gone into your heart. The word has gone20:04 into a storehouse that 1 day you're gonna come across a major problem, and you don't know how they're gonna handle it and how or what words you're gonna use, and you're gonna find that the word of God that is20:16 stored in that storehouse is gonna come forth and give you victory in the name of Jesus. That's the that's the power of God's word. Amen. So we must have disciplines and and and we must watch our20:27 disciplines. Watch your attitude. What is our attitude today? Amen? We need to have a proper decent attitude. Make worship a lifestyle. Not not just a20:39 Sunday morning experience. Some people will tell you, I love the time of worship. When I ask, what time is that? And they say the just at the service before the preaching. No. No. No. Worship is a lifestyle.20:51 Worship is not just singing. Worship is living a godly life. So that whatever you do, you say, god, I'm doing this in your honor, for your glory, because you21:03 are worthy. It's an act of worship. And so we we present our bodies as living sacrifices. It's a worship act. Amen? So live a lifestyle of21:15 worship. Now I love singing and singing is worship, but it's only part of worship. Amen? So we must live a life of worship. Make sure you receive approval from God.21:28 I've noticed today we we we've changed so many things and it's okay. But everybody wants approval. Everybody wants a pat on the back. Everybody wants a thank you. And that's okay. That's the way the21:39 world goes. But we we are the church, the body of Christ. We're not doing this for a reward. We're not doing this for the pat on the back. We're not doing this. If people can speak well of us,21:51 We do what we do for the glory of the Lord. Sometimes people are gonna run you down. Sometimes people are gonna talk bad about the job you're doing, but you're doing the very best you can. You don't care what they say22:03 because you're not doing to make them feel good. You're doing it for the honor and the glory of the Lord. Amen. And even when I go to the workplace, I go, and I'm gonna do my best in my job today. Why? Because I'm22:15 doing it as unto the Lord. We are we are being created to give glory to the Lord. And so I must see that God gets glory if from my life or whatever I do.22:26 I mean, these are these are things we just have to learn and develop so long as we know them, and we're going there. Amen. None of us are perfect, but I don't want people to speak well with me all the time and say, you22:38 did this and you did that. A man came up to me 1 night and in a service, and I just preached, people were saved, and I was praying for people. He came up to me and he was a very smartly dressed man, an elderly man.22:50 And he and he said to me, I just want to thank you for what you've done for my niece. I said, who's the niece? And he showed me. I said, no. She gave her life to Jesus, and Jesus has changed her. He said, no. No. It's23:01 you. I said, no. It's not me. It's not me, sir. I cannot do. I can do nothing for your knees. It is the Lord Jesus Christ, the savior that we preach. He did it. And he got so cross with me, then he23:13 says, I've got my God. Satan is my God. Now I you know what? We can brush that aside. You you can, but for me, it was a time of testing. I think the Lord23:25 tested me. He want to receive. I'm gonna take the glory. Do you understand what I'm saying this morning? He says, I'll have no man rob me of my glory. And how many people are robbing God23:37 of his glory today in the kingdom? It's not about Jesus. Oh, they say it in a song and they say a little word in a message, but it's not about Jesus. It's about them. And23:49 people want people to worship and to to we mustn't be like that in the kingdom. There's equality between us. We're all the same. I say to the people in our church. I'm not I'm not above you. I'm standing24:01 a little bit higher, but I'm on a platform while I'm I stand on equal ground. The least of you, the last person who got saved, it took the same amount to wash them clean from their sin as the as it took for24:13 me to be washed and clean. Hallelujah. And if you were the only person on earth, Jesus would still have died for you. Amen? Hallelujah. So our approval comes from God.24:26 Approval comes from God. I don't know if you've ever heard that thing. I might have to end here. If you've ever heard that, I don't know if it was a song or what, many, many years ago. This man went far overseas to do24:36 some mission work, and he he worked there for many, many years. And then 1 day, as he grew old and sickly, he had to come back. And so he came back on the boat, and while he was on the boat, there was24:48 a celebrity on the boat. And and the boat came into the docks, and there were hundreds of people. There were balloons. There were bands, and they were all cheering and shouting, and they they were24:59 welcoming, the celebrity. He'd been somewhere, and they welcome him back. And this old preacher who'd been out there for many, many years was all alone, and he walked down the gangplank,25:11 and he looked up to heaven and he said, Lord, have you forgotten? And the moment he said that it seemed as he was overwhelmed to the presence of God, and God said to25:23 him, no, my son, but you must remember you're not home yet. Our reward is coming. Well done, thou good and faithful25:35 servant. Now listen, it's a good thing to thank people. Don't don't say I'm saying we mustn't do that. I'm talking about people who just seek it all the time.25:48 We're working for him. Hallelujah. The author and the finisher of our faith. Amen. Praise Jesus. I'm going close with this 1 quickly. Don't let the devil26:00 steal your blessing. Jesus said he's a thief and a robber who's come to destroy and to kill, And so he goes out to steal your26:12 blessing. The moment, the saying is this, after the blessing, then cometh the devil. You remember Peter said, Jesus said to Peter, who do the people say that I am? He said, oh, well, some say John the Baptist,26:24 some Jeremiah, some Elijah, 1 of the prophets. He says, Peter, who do you say that I am? He says, thou art the Christ, the son of the living God. And Jesus says, blessed are you, Simon. Flesh and blood is not revealed to26:35 you. You've not been taught that. You didn't listen to that in the church. You didn't hear it in the college. You received the divine revelation from my father. What a blessing for an ordinary man to receive such a26:46 direct revelation from God. And Jesus says, blessed are you because it is a blessing. And then Jesus says, but I need to go down. I need to be crucified and buried and raised26:58 again. Peter and Peter the Bible says Peter rebuked him. The same Peter. And Jesus says, get thee behind me, Satan. He just said to the man, blessed are27:10 you for this wonderful revelation you've received. But now what comes from his mouth, now what is motivating me is not that blessing, but it's Satan. Because Satan wants to27:21 steal that blessing from him. And how many times isn't doesn't it happen to us? You you have an experience with God. You have a blessing with God. Something wonderful happens, and someone comes along and they blow it27:33 up, say the wrong thing to you. Don't let anyone steal your blessing. God is the God of blessing. No matter27:45 what people say, no matter what people think, no matter way which way the wind blows, we are blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly27:57 places in Christ Jesus. In closing this morning, I wanna tell you the devil can come with all the demons of hell. I'm blessed. I28:09 was a drunkard. Wake up in mornings, don't know what I've done, where I've been. I've known what it is to live on the streets with nothing but a pants and a t shirt and a pair of shoes. I know what all28:21 that is, but 1 day I responded to the gospel of Jesus Christ, and God changed my life. He transformed me. He made me a new creature, And now I wake up in the morning. I've got a28:32 job. I've I've got so many wonderful things happening in my life. I'm a blessed man. I'm a blessed man. Hallelujah. He blesses us every single day. We28:44 go through hardship. We go through sorrow. We go through difficult things, but in the in the end of it all, we are blessed. We are seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Our names are written in the28:56 lamb's book of life. 1 day that book will be opened in front of multitudes of people, and that name Tommy Geiser will be read from that book. Hallelujah. Not because of what I've29:07 done, not because of who I've been, but because of the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, being saved by grace through faith, you have29:19 peace with our Lord through Jesus Christ. Amen. Hallelujah. God bless you.
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